BillsVet

This whole thread is like blaming lower-middle management for lower revenue when the CEO is burning $100 bills in the parking lot. McBeane have largely misfired on OL since day 1, save perhaps Dawkins when he was drafted. Spencer Brown is a TBD at this point, but all the rest - UFA's - have eventually shown to be underwhelming. It's almost as if they see OL like the old RW era days when linemen were an afterthought on draft day. Unless they absolutely needed them, and then they drafted them high (Wood and Levitre). Perhaps the voice from amateur and pro scouting is getting drowned out by McD and the admin-GM type exec in Beane. This isn't a 2021 issue, it's dating back a few years. And it goes without saying that the contracts they've handed out to re-sign someone or ink a new UFA haven't been good either.

Something has to give when the HC is hell bent on having an 8-9 man DL rotation that, in 2021, is costing them 44M and second highest in the NFL. Overall, the Bills are 12th in offensive spending versus 1st in defense. https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/positional/defense/ Josh's contract hits in 2023 and there's no way I can see them spending on defense and trying to maintain a top unit that surrounds Josh with the right protection and weapons. The cap goes up, sure, but at some point having a top paid QB and trying to maintain that defense is not possible. We're seeing that with the OL depth/starters.

Knowing Congress, many of them have probably invested in online gambling companies so their reaction to this problem may be slightly delayed.

I'm not impressed with the organization's ability to draft and develop offensive first contract players...aside from Josh. The last 3 off-seasons they loaded up with UFA OL and did the same at WR. Davis and Knox may improve, but they're in their 2nd or 3rd season respectively. They're just too reliant on UFA types. Beane, as you note, needs to look and the mirror and admit they need help over there. Because, McD now has his DL rotation and it's time to provide Josh everything on offense he could need on days 1 and 2 of the draft. Otherwise, it's gonna be a Packers redux with Rodgers being forced to do it all.

The blame game typically does not fall on only one person's shoulders. Beane put together an OL of UFAs and didn't develop anyone save a guy they traded and someone apparently struggling post-COVID. He spent big on Morse, drafted Ford, and not been strong aside from Allen drafting offense in sum. McD seems to still be uber-DC and still largely abdicates, after 4+ seasons as a NFL HC, the offensive game to Daboll. And there's another dude who's been underwhelming, as has been oft-repeated today. Put it all together and you've got an offense with Josh, some quality veteran skill types and coaching that either A) doesn't really understand offense or B) has offense as their side of the ball and can't manage a game.

I beat any of you guys and I tell Beane to trade you to Jacksonville with that idiot Urban Meyer.

You'd mentioned the mid-season let-down McD always (not blaming him totally) has happen. They had a rough 4 game stretch last year, losing in Tennessee, then in KC, followed by weak Jets and Pats wins last year and then went 8-1. Not worried.

It's a larger issue involving amateur scouting on offense. They made their bones building an offense around UFAs and haven't developed much particularly on the OL. Brown is there, but he's a work in progress. The only other drafted starter, Dawkins, is kinda meh right now. The top WR's - Diggs, Beasley, and Sanders are all veterans acquired. Knox, Singletary, and Moss are all OK, but not anything to write home about. Beane needs to up his game on draft day on offense. Because aside from Josh they've been pedestrian drafting there.

NFL is announcing that there is "nothing to see here" https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/32407532/report-nfl-finds-no-other-current-team-personnel-implicated-washington-football-team-email-investigation Amazing to think they went through hundreds of thousands of pages of emails and made a determination so quickly. Do they have the Ef Be Eye on the case? Only 1 guy was apparently saying such egregiously poor things that it warranted leaking. I'm guessing there was plenty more and De Smith was looking to become the hero to and convince the players he should remain NFLPA Executive. What a sham.

Nick Wright is a clown. 🤡

With this latest news, I bet De Smith gets re-elected NFLPA executive. His position was in doubt after this last CBA, but now is much more certain.

Can't remember who said it, maybe someone on NFLN...but the idea is the Chiefs (or Cheaps as referenced by the late, great RL) just had other teams catch up to them. Allen's emergence in Buffalo and their team building, the Chargers with Herbert and similar team improvement, Baltimore with Lamar Jackson et al., even Tennessee. Kansas City is still a solid team, but they've plateaued, and as a graphic I saw on Twitter today noted, Josh has matched Mahomes over their last 21 starts. Both are 17-4, both have passer ratings above 106.0, are completing about 2/3rds of their passes and have practically the same TD-INT ratio. The AFC has changed considerably with the rise of those QBs, demise of Roethlisberger and Brady's departure to the NFC.

De Smith gonna drive the narrative away from himself and onto all the other controversial NFL management types. First Gruden, next up Dan Snyder. Maybe it works and the NFLPA votes to keep him as their executive director. Because that's all this is about.

It was impressive that he and his staff kept that team focused on the task at hand during a 1 hour break. Cannot say anything remotely negative tonight about McD.

I'm interested to know when they'll be charging Oathkeepers leader Stewart Rhodes. One would think the guy who ran that outfit and coordinated certain "activity" on 6 Jan would be indicted given the others awaiting trial.

Who cares? Tua got hurt, he was behind a bad OL, and Buffalo won by a huge margin. Still not clear why people agonize over hypotheticals. There's plenty enough already to be concerned with.

Wonder how Coach McCla...oh wait, Coach McDermott feels about this. The trust the process line is great.

My concern is that McD isn't supervising the OC and, like other defensive type HC's, hasn't grasped that side of the game enough to do so. Reminds me somewhat of Chan Gailey who abdicated responsibility of the defense to Edwards/Wannstedt to focus on the offense where his background was.

Daboll going to the McDermott school of PR. Reminds me of when, questioned about a lack of scoring, McD responded by saying "of course we'd like to score 50 points a game."

Not going to disagree...but Milano is the second highest paid Will in the NFL.

Did you miss the part about "DE" in my post? In a 40 front that's where your pressure is more often than not coming from.

At some point, offensive scheme needs to align with offensive personnel. Their game-plan yesterday tried to use OL who are solid run blockers (save Morse) and needed them to pass protect 50 times. If they wanted to be pass-happy (and I can understand with Josh and those receivers) then invest in better pass blockers. Issue is, they didn't do much to improve their ability to run and now it's too late to be adding pieces to enable them. When you become a good team, scheme versatility is a must and I'm not seeing this organization doing that on offense.

Hence why investing in more high dollar defenders other than at CB and DE is often a bad investment. One would hope the HC's defensive pedigree would slowly retreat toward accepting this, but it has not.

Season 5 of McD (and I'm not going to isolate all yesterday down to him) but this is who he is. He's a conservative coach, both in crucial game-day moments but more in the predictability of their game-planning. People act surprised when he talks about post-game about field position, but even with Josh and a much better offense versus 2017-18, he's going to play it safe as a rule. The other thing is he's slow on the draw sometimes in adapting to what the other team's doing. I didn't see much change in the 2nd half despite being bottled up offensively. It's as if he and Daboll fall in love with their game-plan and will not yield it may need to be tweaked to get the desired result. Look, I know all NFL HC's are type A personalities, but McD has rarely if ever showed a willingness to modify his approach when it's not working. Resistance to that is going to hurt this team now that they're top tier.

People want predictions on everything...I'm here to calm their anxieties and fears with real life answers. It's like a few years ago, someone wondered about what would happen if Allen's backup got hurt. Not Allen, but Matt Barkley. I helped the poster out by telling them it didn't matter and they needed to take off their diaper.